This is the only thing giving me any hope about the club at the minute. It’s good to know, people are prepared to fight, as this is so important. The real heroes at BRFC at the minute, are not those who wear the shirt on a Saturday, kiss the badge and then refuse to play if another club, show any interest. The real heroes are those who know we have crooks both visible and invisible, who have an agenda that is destroying everything this club stood for over 135 years and will not let them get away with it, without a fight, The club is dying guys, but there is a flicker of life and instead of bickering about how good or bad the latest recruit is, or if the manager will last the season, we need to join in the fight, before it’s too late.

Not sure about that. The club is a shitshow and this has generated a culture, where players clearly share a view that BRFC is going nowhere. I still don’t think that lets CB off the hook here. I loathe the regime, but CB’s behaviour leaves a very bad taste for me…. Szmodics too…

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It's on record the reason Weimann and Batth signed last summer was because they accepted lower than average wages because they both had a point to prove. Blackburn Rovers were shopping in the bargain basement then and are doing exactly the same this summer. Weimann and Batth both proved there worth to Eustace and have followed him to Derby due to better wages and the club having more ambition than ours. If you want to keep repeating the "we are clearly not skint" line then why did BRFC not offer them both 1 year deals on sensible/competitive wages ?

Additional court conditions… The club’s auditors have to provide a certificate confirming the use of the funds. Venkateshwara Hatcheries have to submit bank statements for both Venkys London and BRFC to substantiate the use (and final destination) of the funds.

With this money they allotted shares in Venkys London Ltd, on the previous occasion they allotted shares in Venkateshwara London Ltd. As to why they’ve stopped creating equity in BRFC and have instead chosen to add more to what the club owes the holding company 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

It’s partially true for any club outside 7 or 8 post the 1960s. But any Rovers ‘fan’ that meekly accepts this is as good as it can be for BRFC when half the top flight are clubs like Bournemouth and Brentford are no fans at all.

In the 5 world cups that Croatia have been a part of they have come third twice and runners up once. That was not an easy draw. Drawing Italy wasn't easy either. They were a good side and proved it too. And the same for Holland. Switzerland are a team nobody really wants to face as France found out and Spain almost found out too, only scraping by on penalties. It is not touching a nerve, it is addressing a point you make. Each and every faint praise you give Southgate is caveated with how lucky you think the draw was and that he never beat an "elite" team. Who decides who the 'elite' are? You haven't answered that one yet. None of those runs were out of the ordinary for a typical route to an international final. I don't understand why you keep repeating them - almost all international tournament winners would have faced similar teams in their route to the semi or final. What's your point? That they were seen as favourable? Maybe, but none of that diminishes in any way the achievement of Southgate, but you mention it every single time you bring up Southgate's tournament record. For me it doesn't matter one iota. I couldn't care less if we played Papa New Guinea, Fiji and Wales on the way to the Final. In all of the years before Southgate came, getting to the quarters became a success... Now we are looking at anything other than winning a tournament being a failure. That is all on Gareth Southgate. So lucky, blessed by the Gods, a tactical genius - whatever the Council of BRFC decides - he was a resounding success for the national team and the country as a whole

Perfectly summarised. Still people don't recognise that we are in the midst of an existential crisis under these owners, there is no future, no growth, no plan, no ambition, at the very best we tread water under a zombie administration making a competent job of whatever resources they chuck our way until either the staff/players get fed up and go elsewhere or our wonderful owners smash it all to bits again because they feel like it. Every day, week, month, year this regime continues its poisonous grip on BRFC is simply more and more time and distance we fall behind just about any other club with competent fit ad proper ownership. Ultimately there will be nothing left, only by then it will be too late to recover from.

Venkys would rather be Kings of the Ashes of BRFC and Ewood Park than leave via the back door and hand it to someone else, they'll drag the club into the gutter and hollow it out until it scarcely resembles a professional club rather than just admit defeat and sell it. The myth that there's no interested people out there, based on a curious blend of Stockholm syndrome and the Walker Trust's failings almost 20 years ago, has been dismantled many times over the last few years. Vile people only interested in their own egos and power rather than the greater good.

The halves aren't reversed on the back therefore it's not the traditional colours. It's not as bad as some of the abominations.over the years but it's still gash. It's actually quite fitting for a 15th anniversary shirt in that regard. BRFC 1875 - 2010 R.I.P

Speak for yourself. I couldn't in all good conscience attempt to lure my blissfully unaware neighbours into the complete despair of supporting modern day BRFC. They don't deserve that.

Indirectly it's all to do with Rovers i.e the funding set up from India to the UK for the (sole) purpose of financing the football club. The VH group is under investigation for specific issues that went array connected to putting money into the UK company that owns the club. Whilst the club itself isn't under investigation its ultimate parent company and financial provider is therefore everything it inter connected one way or another. Lets not go all Steve Waggot and pretend it isn't and personally i'm pretty convinced if the Indian authorities could crawl all over Rovers books and every transaction between VLL and BRFC they would. Not saying they'd find anything other than a few more cock ups but i'm not totally convinced either and i doubt they are but they've obviously nothing to go to date that we know about.

Yeah, I referenced the you/know-who in my post. Fergie said the club was being run by agents after allardyce was sacked. I don’t think anyone disagrees. My point about the conspiracy was in relation to why they haven’t sold the club. Money laundering, tax evasion, asset stripping and the usual reasons make no sense and there’s no evidence. So what’s left? Just the mundane reason that Rovers is just a hobby for some very very rich people who can afford to keep the club running and beyond that have no real plan or ambition for BRFC.

I’ve never bought the conspiracy angle. They’re just rich kids who have inherited wealth and wanted the kudos of owning a PL club. They got duped by you know who and thought they could invest £5m and get in the champions League every year. Hahaha. They now can’t extricate themselves from the madness as they’ll lose face and practically every penny of the £300m they’ve had to invest to keep the club afloat. Over 15 years it’s still loose change to them but I doubt they’ll sell on the cheap cos it will be again be loss of face. So it just rolls on, the Venky boot stamping on the face of BRFC forever…. Getting rid of Waggott et al will change nothing.

The BOI dont seem to have any issue with them though as far as Im aware? I'm not fully up to speed on what they're meant to have done or not done but obviously, yes, IF that has occurred that potentially could be quite serious. The only things I was aware of were allegedly improperly using VOL funds (which obviously should only be used for BRFC purposes) to buy Neville's old house and the Akon shares

Mark Brfc beat me to it but - No, just cheaper inferior ones to replace the ones we've already got.

Totally. If they had decided to voluntarily relegate a BRFC squad through underfunding it but been open and honest about it, inviting me and every other fan to an open house to communicate why they're such penny pinching cunts it would have been fine.

Because some clown will make some monumental cock up at some point then try and cover it up. It's absolutely amazing we didn't end up in trouble when they clearly had a 3rd party running the club in plain sight. They'll not get away with it again and they've had Suhail hiding in the shadows running things but obviously he couldn't have a proper title for years due to whatever. That kind of thing won't go unnoticed nor will the investigations in India, which so far hasn't involved the club, but how long before someone over here wants to investigate BRFC paperwork if some administrative cock up draws attention to the club.

On the shareholder thing just need clarify the owenship structure. Assuming by shareholders you are referring to those of Venkys India Ltd which is a public company listed on the stock exchange in which VHPL own a large proportion of the shares. VHPL is 100% privately owned and owns VLL (amongst numerous other companies) which in turn owns BRFC. Venkys India Ltd has nothing directly to do with Rovers. I posted a link a while back to the latest ratings agency report on VHPL which gives an insight into its structure, borrowings and cash position. It's rating is A+++ with extremely strong liquidity.

My fingers remain tightly crossed that this is going to break them and their cruel grip on BRFC. Either by them being found guilty of serious crimes once that investigation eventually completes, forcing them to relinquish control, or in the meantime by these clearly onerous requirements on funding preventing/discouraging them from keeping the show on the road. As with the Oyston era at Blackpool the only way we are getting rid of this lot is with the help of higher authority. As long as things remain ongoing on that front I'll stay hopeful.

there's no news from the club about the 25/26 kits. They've only just started to try sell off 24/25 stock at 50% reduced prices (you might ask why they didn't do this before the last home game as it's their last chance of significant footfall but it brfc marketing we're dealing with). It's the last year of Macron making the kit but no news as who will be the 'main' sponsors. Expect news about the new kit no earlier than July.

Sorry for the silence over the last week or so (Was in for unexpected surgery Tuesday) The Coalition has been busy working away in the background on various initiatives and plans which will run through the summer and into the new season and beyond. Club update: The club continues to offer no dates for interim discussions hoping we will disappear I assume, though we did not expect them to put anything forwards. They publicly stated they wanted to find resolution through diplomacy and although there was some reluctance within the Coalition Panel to engage at all with the club, we did not want to give the club the "Get out of jail card" that we've refused to engage. No meeting is another point to the supporters and has enabled us make significant in roads in to wider support from community figures. I today met with Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain, after his parliamentary speech last week had not read the room in terms of how supporters were feeling. We exchanged emails in the last 24 hours and a couple of telephone calls, before he invited me to his offices today, Firstly I must say, what a genuinely nice gentleman. He was open and honest that football had never been his sport and the last 15 years of Rovers he was significantly out the loop of who owns us, or the wider issues. He stated he'd had a meeting or two unrelated with the Execs at Rovers, unbeknown to him that there was a significant history of disconnection between the club and the supporter base. He did not know the community trust and the club are two different entities and was put in the picture they should not be confused as the same. Reasoning the community trust are absolutely fantastic and a shining light for the town and credit to the staff. Prior to our meeting, he'd made a number of calls to those who had an greater angle on what's been going on at Rovers, and he had a general idea. I ran through the history of the club, touching on its heritage, 150 years, pre Jack walker, The walker years, and how the Rao family came to own our club and the subsequent investigation carried out by the BRFC Action Group which resulted in meetings with the Premier League, The FA, EFL and finally our meeting at Parliament which instigated the Independent regulator bill which is currently part of the current parliamentary discussions. We discussed the FA's commercial partnership with Kentaro and the subsequent press gagging which threatened to lift the lid which would of been a national embarrassment to the English football authorities, hence the governments intervention. We discussed the current situation at the club, and the lengths supporters have had to go to previously to have corruption removed from the corridors of Ewood. We discussed a Hierarchy where Accountability, Responsibility is only but in name, with the club being run by opportunist with little or no experience, where they've turned a £300 million investment into dead money by their inability to run a football club, whilst supporters are treated as merely customers with an "At arms left" approach with little or no transparency, where information is only shared on an exclusive nature, alienating the other 99.9% of the supporter base. Adnan is extremely keen to help any way he can including fully endorsing the coalition. We've road mapped a strategy together which includes but is not limited to the following. 1. A full open supporters meeting, with the cost being picked up by Blackburn Council to allow all supporters to talk in a pubic forum to relay their concerns to enable him to challenge the club and ownership both privately and publicly. He'd attend this meeting and take all questions to allow him to be educated further, so he can give the right support. 2. He will be contacting the Execs, asking what is happening at Rovers, and requesting they also attend a separate public meeting with the supporters to face questions over the running of the club. 3. He is going to both write and phone the owners, looking for clarity on their aims for the club and relay the supporters concerns over the running of the club in the UK and the lasting affect its having on the town and community including regeneration. 4. He's going to advocate for a democratic voice as a minimum for supporters without prejudice to be able to hold the club accountable for their actions. 5. He is open to facilitating another panel of supporters attending parliament around the community impact the last 15 years has brought, to galvanize further the need for governance and greater supporter involvement at our football clubs. He was passionate throughout our meeting and the calls we had yesterday, he cleared his dairy to meet pretty much straight away, as our town, needs a thriving football team to aid a thriving town. A club is nothing without its community, and this was something he was keen to express. We've other discussions on-going with other key potential allies, as we continue to build the Coalitions credibility for the tough days and weeks ahead.

I can see the manager leaving, depending on what the stooges have promised him. Precedents have been set at BRFC, I would be surprised if he is managing Rovers on the last game of the season..

Unfortunately, if we see Sammie at all again next season, it will be him getting in behind our defence and scoring against us, rather than leading the line for his beloved Blue and White army. Small matter of the decent fee Ipswich stumped up for the lad, for which they will want to recoup a fair chunk from whoever takes him on. Then there's the possibility that a club in the Championship with far deeper pockets than us (i.e. practically any team you'd care to mention) looking to add his proven goalscoring boots to their ranks. Not withstanding Ipswich actually start to deploy the Smodster in their own battle to boing boing back to the Prem - after all, he has already shown he can more than cut it at this level. Let's face it - Sammie Smodicz - thanks for the memories, and we salute you for your contribution. But it's ancient history now, and a return of the Smodz is not on the cards at BRFC.